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10 Livres
| Issuer | Imperial Ottoman Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | P#110 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed primarily in brown tones on an intricate arabesque underprint of scrolling floral motifs. A large central text panel in Ottoman calligraphic script occupies the majority of the face, surrounded by a rectangular guilloche border with star ornaments at the corners. Two circular dark calligraphic medallions are positioned at the left and right centre, and a rectangular overprint reading 'DELOIEME EMISSION' appears at the lower left; the denomination '10' is repeated in both Arabic and Western numerals at the lower corners. |
| Reverse lettering | DELOIEME EMISSION |
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The Imperial Ottoman Bank, though nominally an Anglo-French institution headquartered in Constantinople, had its later wartime notes printed in Berlin — a direct consequence of the Ottoman Empire's alliance with Germany and the effective severance of access to the bank's traditional Western European print suppliers after 1914. Reichsdruckerei had by 1918 absorbed substantial wartime printing contracts across the Central Powers.
The 1918 series was issued under severely strained conditions, with the Ottoman economy in near-collapse and the empire weeks away from the Armistice of Mudros in October. Notes from this printing saw very little meaningful commercial use before the political situation rendered the issuing authority itself obsolete.